Palm Beach County, Florida
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Highland Beach, FL
A normal year in Highland Beach brings about 64 inches of rain; on roughly 19 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 24.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 39,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00085184, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Highland Beach falls 102nd for heavy-rain days of the 758 places in Florida on this site (19.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 761 places in Florida on this site (half built by 1983).
When to clean gutters in Highland Beach
Frost is rare in Highland Beach, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Highland Beach rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Highland Beach the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.90 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 660 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,320, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
The houses in Highland Beach
Half the homes in Highland Beach were built by 1983, 40% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
95% of households own their home, and 10% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Florida
Before hiring in Highland Beach, ask which Florida license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Highland Beach
With half the homes built by 1983, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: